MOLDI - Needs a new name

Who ever decided this was a good name, please? Yes, I know what it stands for, but please, what can people be thinking? Here's this great concept with a yucky acronym. People, people we've got to be more creative than this! New L&P initiative - find an online acronym generator and give a reward out to anyone who finds the most ATTRACTIVE name for a great program - Please.

Besides all that...I am a great fan of Books on CD, and before that Books on Tape. I have about a 30 minute drive to and from work and sometimes I think that's when my best reading gets done. We're always stocked with BOCD when we travel, and my DD likes to listen to them at night when she goes to bed. She an probably recite the entire story of Winnie-the-Pooh by heart, and in an English accent. But while I browse the digital collection (I refuse to use THAT name) every so often, I haven't been particularly interested in downloading anything. My library card is full, and my car is stocked, and there are books piled beside my bed and the couch. I'm at my limit. If I didn't spend 45+ hours in a library all day, it might be more of an incentive for me. In fact I've often thought that if I didn't work in a library, how would I fit library time in to my life? So for non-library staff, this can be a great alternative.

Reading a book on my laptop would be ok, except I try not to take my laptop everywhere with me. And you just know the battery would die just as I was getting to the good part of the book. That's what put me off buying any type of er-reader so far - the battery life. When an energy storage breakthrough is made, then I'll be first in line, but until then paper is going to be my first choice when it comes to reading material. It may be non-tech, but it fits my needs best.

My DH, in fact, has downloaded several books from this program and is quite happy with it. He thinks the software can be a bit of a pain, but then that's the IT world - there are always glitches. But for the purposes of Learn & Play, I have downloaded Dog Years: a memoir by Mark Doty. And in audio format I've downloaded Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: the calamitous 14th century.